Who says nothing good comes from getting deadpooled?
Blake Machado was the winner of a YouTube announcement contest we held a couple weeks back. He was the first to guess correctly that YouTube would come out with some new APIs to spread its influence over the web. The prize was an iPod shuffle.
Turns out YouTube’s announcement was particularly poignant for Blake given his connection to the previous deadpooled Stage6. As he revealed to us after winning:
Ironically guessing/winning this is bitter-sweet. I was the PM of
Stage6 and this is an area where we had planned to beat YouTube to the
punch and gain some, hopefully, extremely positive results. We would
have as it was scheduled for Feb. release — oh well.
So how’d we comfort him in his time of need? Etched a reminder of that deadpooling into his “consolation” prize, of course. You’re welcome, Blake.
AHAHAAHAHAHAAH
You may already have noticed, but that first link on the word “deadpooled” leads to a 404 page.
Anyway, nice consolation there, heh.
haha, you should have gotten this laser etched on the ipod shuffle:
http://www.etch...-Sucks-Elephant
You can deadpool my non-existent company, and sent me an iPod…
Very cool and happy that tech peeps have a sense of humor!
Haha thanks again guys. The shuffle is great — been using it working out.
-Blake
Is your name really Balke Machado? How does a name like that happen?
Wow. Just, wow. =P My name is Blake Machado, not Balke.
And I turned that into an online alias, Balke Macho.
-Blake
Congrats Blake! At least you got a freakin Shuffle!
- Chester
Thanks, Chester.
PS. I’m going to steal your technique and link to my linked in.
It really sucks, stage6 was one of the best sites out there. I wish they would have atleast sold to someone else
Stage6 was an incredible site, light years beyond most of their competition (and that includes YouTube). It’s amazing that they had to pull the plug like this.
You deadpooled my company (Livelocker). How about a free ipod for all deadpooled companies?
Ha ha, you’ve been TechPunched.
ah, sorry Blake. Or Balke.
Why did you buy the red one?
Is this where previous deadpooled companies hide? In the techcrunch comments?
ineedhits: We don’t have much else to do these days
Wow! iPod shuffle….wat a nice gift.
TC should hold some kind of dinner or get together for everyone deadpooled. Heh it would be an interesting reason to get everyone in the room.
Thats cold blooded!
@21: Welcome to the tech industry!
http://www.geoc...ties.com/poi243
heh Blake congrats.
Too funny. Congrats Balke.
Long live the hamster!
Gotta start selling “TechCrunch DeadPooled My Company…” T-shirts
Campaign’s like this would be a great product placement advertising strategy, and a new source of ad revenue for blogs. The photo and story behind the placement of the Apple logo is very impactful from a brand perspective. I hope that you sold this campaign to Apple’s marketing team, or will think of doing a campaign like this in the future. Let us know if you convince Apple or another company to sign on. Oh, I am just realizing that it would be very similar to pay per post. Take that all back. Bad idea.
“Congrats Blake! At least you got a freakin Shuffle!”
Haha we should make T-shirts, “I tried to buy stage6 and make it more awesome. Instead all I got was this freakin’ Shuffle.”